The poetic character of human activity
Subtitle: collected essays on the thought of Michael Oakeshott
By: Wendell John Coats, Jr., and Chor-yung Cheung
Contributors: Cheung, Chor-yung
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780739171615; 9780739171622
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.         ) and index.
Table of contents: title: Michael Oakeshott and the poetic character of human activity (Coats); title: Practical implications of Oakeshott's poetic conception of human activity (Coats); title: Skepticism, poetic imagination, and the art of non-instrumentality: Oakeshott and Zhuangzi (Cheung); title: Some correspondences between Michael Oakeshott's critique of rationalism and A.C. Graham's account of spontaneity vs. reason (Coats); title: Conversation and learning: Oakeshott and Confucius (Cheung); title: Michael Oakeshott and contemporary political philosophy: an interpretation (Coats); title: "Theory and practice" in Oakeshott, Strauss, and Vogelin (Coats); title: Three views of Leviathan: Oakeshott, Strauss, and Vogelin (Coats); title: The cave, the Tower of Babel, and civil conversation: methaphors and the philosophical and political thought of Oakeshott (Cheung).